Advice For Upcoming Rips?

I tend to like the EQ you do for the tapes, but what final product should sound like is very subjective. I have sensitive hearing and too much noise or high end distortion can hurt my ears, this is I why I make the trade off I do with NR (carefully). I assume NR isn't very popular to begin with in these kinds of spaces. Some people are very much "the more tape hiss the better!" and I love that.

I think it would be cool just for archival purposes, to upload completely unedited versions as well, before doing your second digital EQ. Mainly because the EQ technically results in a loss of information on a digital recording, even if minuscule. I like to endlessly redo the tape stuff I listen too, I will tweak it to my liking, spend a week listening to it on different systems, and decide I want to tweak it more or completely redo it. Though it feels rude of me to ask you to host so many versions on top of all you do for this site.

Something fun I have been doing is adding chapters/markers to the audio file for each track, allowing me to skip around through songs without splitting any audio. But now when I do go to split the audio, I can just have it automatically separate at the markers, creating files with the track names and everything ready to go.

I have also made a template in GIMP for making cover art for all of the tapes (see attached example), using the photos on this site. I think it's cool to have the photo of the actual specific tape the audio is from as the cover art. I can have each tape saved as FLAC, with their cover art and easy to navigate tracks, all in a single file. I can send any of this to you if you would like.

Also, I run into an issue where I can't tell for sure where the B side starts if the tape is high enough quality, this only matters for NR purposes and the fact I like to use the A01...B01... numbering style.

PS- I'm just curious no shade, but do you upload in .wav for a specific reason? As apposed to some lossless format?

Thank you so much! This place is the best. I'm very excited for the new rips!

Nah I appreciate you for the feedback. It's rare that I get such online regarding Memphis cassette's and the process of digitalizing them. So, ill try my best to respond likewise homie. I could keep the OG file from the rip but I would like to have them in a separate Untitled.stream playlist. But at that point I feel like it may just be something exclusively for you lol. However, I don't think that my rips at this point are altered to the point of not being compatible with further EQ. I really only removed everything below 24 and above 17k Hertz. But I'm not too sure what your intentions are sonically so I'm not too sure about doing. Although I have been thinking about possibly creating another playlist of the duplicate tapes I have. Many of which I have not posted yet. Ill link some down below.  

Also, the difference in side A & B audio should reveal itself if it is indeed present on the rip. I'm assuming you were talking about my rips? Because some junts 45 minutes and under will be on all side A. I attribute this phenomenon with the likelihood it being a repress most likely. I have some tapes like that, so telling the difference is indeed probably difficult. I also use wav for my rips because Untitled wasn't introduced to me until months after starting ripping. So by that point the 50 or so junts I had already ripped were exported in Wav for YouTube mainly. I have also been trying to get my sample rate as high as possible without freezing my computer. As, I also got a new Macbook to test this out. If I have the space and processing to do so I will start experimenting with flac in these upcoming rips since I never even considered it until now. 

Also don't worry about using NR, you do what sounds best to yourself always and just hope others like it. While me & my homie Cptjagger (who helps with the equipment) are against NR. We both don't care what someone else decides to do with their own audio. Much love tho. 

Gotcha! Yeah I figured that was a super specific ask that would really only appeal to me lol, so no worries at all! You are the one managing and covering everything financially. You're EQ process sounds good to my ears, everything on this site has replaced all my previous versions I would listen too.

I like the idea of uploading rips of different copies, with all the various generations of tapes some might sound more better to an individual's taste. Also just for the sake of preserving history.

Thank you for the info! Always appreciate what you do!

Kind of curious now, what do you do specifically to EQ them, do you put them in a DAW? Now that I think about it that would be impractical... If I come across a track that sounds particularly lo-fi or the stereo field scattered I would do some editing so that it is "fixed" & maybe some light compression on the drums & low shelf EQ on the melody if needed.